DateTime parsing complex C # strings

Question

I am trying to parse string-dates for DateTime objects in the following format:

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:51:20 +0000

What I have tried so far are many different options with DateTime.ParseExact ().

I tried:

DateTime.ParseExact("Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:13:51 +0000", "ddd, dd MM yyyy hh':'mm':'ss zzz", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); 

With thousands of different formats as the second parameter, using null instead of InvarantCulture as the third parameter, etc., I cannot get it to work. How should I parse such a string?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

What about

 var s = "Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:51:20 +0000"; DateTime.ParseExact(s, "ddd, dd MMM yyyy hh:mm:ss zzz", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) 

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The month ( Oct ) is actually MMM , not MM , and the time ( 09:51:20 ) should be hh:mm:ss instead of hh':'mm':'ss .

Answer 2

Correct parsing

 DateTime.ParseExact("Mon, 29 Oct 2012 12:13:51 +0000", "ddd, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss K", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); 

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